Wilkey v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Kenneth Ray Wilkey was convicted of aggravated assault, for having brutally beaten his girl friend in a series of incidents occurring over one day. After a pool party at the victim’s mother’s house, Wilkey struck the victim across her face and injured her lip. Wilkey hit the victim again with the back of his hand, causing blood and flesh to fly across the coffee table. After Wilkey left, a woman friend of the victim urged her to leave the house. The victim left with her friend, but they met Wilkey on a roadway at the foot of Lookout Mountain. Wilkey dragged the…